Male lesbians on the internet

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S.A.M. said:

So it could be rationalisation, painting sexual fantasy with political righteousness?
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Aye. Rationalization possibly to the point of sublimation. Depends on the point of origin within his own mind.

I imagine the scenario isn't far off, where male lesbians on the internet will be courting each other, sublime in the illusion that the other one must be the real thing.
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I would suggest you're wrong, but only because it's already here.

I can't say when the first "male lesbian" as such appeared on the internet, but if we start with 1995—i.e., Netscape launch and popular rise of the internet—I would estimate that there were hundreds, if not thousands, of "male lesbians" online by 1996.

A proper historian of the internet can probably tell us about the numbers of email and IRC users over time; I'm pretty sure the "male lesbian" existed online long before '95.
 
S.A.M. said:
Yeah Thats what bugged me as well. One was supposedly trying to be the voice of the oppressed Arab woman and the other wanted to improve his writing. But carrying on an online affair for six months with a lesbian and putting real people in danger for imagined activism doesn't give credibility to the first and I'm not sure what improvement in writing can be achieved by deceiving people into thinking you are someone you are not. At least, with the guy heading up Lezgetreal, it can be justified that since he was running a lesbian dating site he adopted a persona which may have been beneficial to his site.
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Sounds more like a Wiener move . Oh I am funny . The new bone head = Wiener Move . Oh shit oh dear LoL
 
S.A.M. said:

... and I'm not sure what improvement in writing can be achieved by deceiving people into thinking you are someone you are not.
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Oh, that's easy enough. One believes one can come to "think like a woman", and thus write better characters.

Nothing says it's a good theory of writing development, but artists inherently look at the world in some way deviant from norms, each according to the relevant art.

Yes, most people look at the world in some way deviant from statistical norms, but with artists it's a matter of magnitude to the one, and complexity to the other.

The disclaimer, of course, is that complexity speaks nothing to superiority of perspective. There is no correlation, as we might observe that artists are very frequently dysfunctional.

For my own part, I never understood just how the late Jack Cady ended up writing a female protagonist so well. Normally, I just write it up to the influence of Carol Orlock, his wife of thirty years. To the other, one of his strengths as an under-recognized treasure of American literature° is his ability to bring characters to vivid and sympathetic life.

Yes, I can imagine someone putting the theory to the test. But I don't think I could kid myself into believing that creating a fake virtual identity and convincing people I was a woman would actually do anything to help me figure out how to write better characters. Except, maybe, a pervert or con man.
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° under-recognized treasure of American literature — I would simply acknowledge the implications of that phrase, and thus state clearly that I do not believe it to any dimension an exaggeration. Of course, that's just me.
 
If an anonymous forum is offered up for use, human nature will compel everyone using it to pretend to be something they are not to a greater or lesser degree. Male lesbian is an extreme example.

If honesty is the goal, photgraphs, names and identity checks would be the requisites for internet discussion…
 
What's funny is that in this day and time people still think that something that they read on the internet is true.
 
The internet just mirrors the real world. People are deceptive in the real world and of course they will be deceptive on the internet too. How many transvestites are there in the real world? thousands I’m sure. What puzzles me is why everyone is so surprised that there are 'virtual' transvestites as well..
 
You have a choice;
A highly regulated internet where everyone is who they say they are and culpable for the truth of what they write, or a free open internet, with anonymity, where there is vastly more information available but the truth of a large portion of it is questionable.
 
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